DNSRank is an all new juvenile entrant in a jungle full of raging tigers. What I mean to say is that, they’ve decided to join the whole SEO bandwagon with almost no originality on their part - which might make it very difficult for them to survive for long.
The site definitely has that Web 2.0 jazz & sparkle to it and is very well laid out. They describe themselves as a “Domain Evaluation Tool” - but I’m sorry to say that they fall way short of expectations in this quarter. Eye-candy isn’t all !! Lets face the reality. There are plenty of age old predators in this field, starting from web-based services like SEOMoz & Xinu to awesome Firefox extensions like SeoQuake, SEOpen & SearchStatus. Most of these tools give far more comprehensive information and Search Engine Optimization tips than the barebone skeletal outline offered by DNSRank. While utilising their service, I couldn’t find a single tool that could spike my interest… except maybe for the section that displays sites which share the same IP as yours. Then again, there are plenty of other services on the net that cater to just this, as a simple Google Search reveals.
DNSRank is still in it’s infancy. Running their own tool on their own domain reveals that even the domain registration is just 29 days old (on the date of writing this review). Judging by it’s age, we can certainly cut some lax. If they have market domination (or at least gaining a large percentage) in mind, they’ve already lost out of the beginning battle. They totally failed to cash in on the element of surprise (by introducing new tools & tricks) - which is so common to any Web 2.0 startup these days. If they’re really out to set a mark on the wall, they need to strive much much harder than this.
Lets say, you own a web-based business that isn’t working all that well. You don’t seem to get too many hits from the major search engines, despite trying out all the “proven” SEO techniques you dug up from the net. Your best bet under such circumstances is to turn to professional help - like Apogee Search - who can get …
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Well, almost ! Xinu is this great new “Jack-of-all-trades” tool that analyses and returns a horde of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) related information regarding your site, neatly stacked in a single page. A real time-saver if you ask me.
All you go to do is enter your site’s URL …
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If you’re a webmaster and run your own site, Website Grader can count as a brand new yet invaluable addition to your SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) toolbox. The site takes your own site’s URL as an input and provides a Percentile SEO Score (on a scale of 100) …
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A couple of days back I’d made an announcement regarding the launch of the Chaos Laboratory Forums in order to provide technical support for the WordPress plug-ins I’ve written. Now a normal installation of SMF (Simple Machines Forum) is well known for the ugly & non-search-engine-friendly URLs it generates. On the other hand, WordPress comes totally optimised for Search Engines …
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Webmasters who use the Google Webmaster Tools (formerly known as Google Sitemaps) will be pleased to know that now it’s possible to get a list of the incoming links to your site right from the Webmaster Tools control panel.
Earlier on, you could glean some information about your site’s inbound links using the Google search engine’s link: operator. It works …
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My site has been up for quite sometime now and has started enjoying decent link-backs. Google’s definitely crawling my pages. Surprisingly, my PageRank never increased. It was ZERO on the first day and it stayed ZERO till today.
A little investigation revealed that while, www.chaos-laboratory.com is at PR 0, chaos-laboratory.com has silently crept up to PR 2 !! So Google …
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Here are a couple of excellent free PageRank analysis tools that can help you estimate your site’s standing with Google.
Live PageRank - This tool gives you a comprehensive chart of your site’s PageRank across multiple Google datacenters. If you’ve been waiting for a hike in your pagerank for a long while - and you see a higher figure in any …
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